CVE-2010-0436: Kde Sc

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in backend/ctrl.c in KDM in KDE Software Compilation (SC) 2.2.0 through 4.4.2 allows local users to change the permissions of arbitrary files, and consequently gain privileges, by blocking the removal of a certain directory that contains a control socket, related to improper interaction with ksm.

Affected products

• Kde Kde Sc: version 2.2.0 only; version 3.5.10 only; version 4.1.2 only; version 4.2.2 only; version 4.3.0 only; version 4.3.1 only; …

Published 2010-04-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.